StockUp

Едет наркоман в трамвае. Бабулька просит его прокомпостировать талончик. Наркоман берет талончик и обращается к стоящему рядом военному: — Слышь, солдат, пробей талончик! Тот поправляет: — Я не солдат, я матрос! Наркоман поворачивается к бабульке и отдает ей талончик: — Обломись, бабка... Талон не надо — мы на пароходе!

StockUp is a very poorly made text based spreadsheet simulator where you're supposed to play the stock market, however, while you can buy and sell stocks, the market itself does not behave like a stock market. Stocks just tick up and down randomly... and the purpose of a simulator is to simulate! The developer didn't bother. This really is quite trash and does deserve the rather large number of negative reviews it has (in fact I was surprised how many people bought and played the game, the screenshots alone should be enough to deter gamers). There is, however, something very special about this game. Ludicrously, and I'm not making this up, it was made with the crapfest that is GameGuru. Yeah, you know, the drag and drop construction kit for making FPS games. Except this isn't an FPS game at all... some weird contortionism took place here to twist GameGuru into presenting a spreadsheet game. Does that mean the outcome is a good one? Of course not, here's why. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. Bewilderingly, the game doesn't include proper audio controls, so you can't turn off the annoying background music, you'll need to alt+tab out and stop the music using the Windows sound mixer. This is obviously not okay and it's unclear why the developers chose not to include this basic feature. For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static images... it might as well be a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC. Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the video game construction kit/toolset, GameGuru FPS Creator. This is a very poor quality toolset sometimes used by amateur/unskilled developers as it doesn't require advanced game development skills, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities. Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. StockUp is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

-10/10

單純看股票數字買跟賣，很無聊，而且沒有資訊給你判斷股票走向，比大富翁四的股市還糟糕

I play Steam games in alphabetical order and you can watch my review here (Game 2 of 3 featured): https://youtu.be/Ch68PXSf1Ug A stock market simulator where the chance of a stock increasing or decreasing is 50/50, meaning that there are no viable tactics, just luck. Should you decide to play this game, the best method of winning is to immediately pause the game, buy 1 stock and then wait for 10-15 minutes while the bonus system increases your stock to the maximum value. Sell, then repeat 10 times to beat the game. That said, I don't know why you would do this rather than spending your money on a game that is actually good.

Juego muy simple para algo tan complejo como es la compra y venta de acciones y los controles son muy malos.

Again, "...gameplay could be utterly broke by some interface glitch", but unlike "To the Capital", this Capitalist-Idling-Sim don't even need your attention. No, actually it may don't even need you. So... :/ Uninteresting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stockup, c'est l'un de ces jeux qui peut se retrouver complètement pété par un bug d'interface, comme l'est "To the Capital". *Fascinant* ? Pas vraiment, car contrairement à ce dernier, ce Sim'Boursicoteur sait courir tout seul, et c'est à peine s'il daigne avoir besoin de votre contribution. Non. En fait, ce jeu n'en a que faire de votre petite personne. Vous ne le méritez même pas, et il vous le rendra bien. Alors... :/ Avis : Sans intérêt.